They are beautiful. Nothing cuter than baby goats bouncing all over. I bet watching more than 2 together is like watching a box of pingpong balls dropped in a gym!! Heres thinking good thoughts for healthy problem free birthing season!! Looking forward to the "group photo" J

Oh Superhoney. How wonderful is that!!! Babies, spring time, you gotta a whole load of that stuff coming on, good luck, that is gonna be a lot of young uns running and bouncing around, yay!!! As Jody said, can't wait to see the group hug, have a most wonderful and awesome day, life, health. Cindi

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SuperHoney, yeah!!! Getting through the goating-baby-thingy, smiling. YOu have a lot of babies coming, what on earth do you do with them all? Do you supply your family with food? Milk? Elaborate, I would love to hear more of what is going on at your farm and what you do. I have never tried goat, but I think it would be good food. Good luck, keep us posted on the events. Have that great, most wonderful day, life, health, love our life. Cindi

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There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service

Cindi: Well most of them go to 'market' to be auctioned for food, breeding, etc. The girls that have good characteristics and a good family history of personality, health, momma skills etc. will have a chance to be added to the herd depending on whether we need to increase or decrease our numbers.

The boys usually just go to market because we don't run full bloods or do shows and such that a high percentage matters.

We only let the male (a 100% Boer) out for a few weeks to hit 2 heat cycles so all the babies arrive within a few days of each other usually (as he seems to get them (all the adult does) all in the first few days and rarely misses until the second round of heat 21 days later).

That's how we do it :)

Oh and we have 7 little does (or yearlings) we kept from 2008's kidding season to be added to the herd to breed later this year giving us 17 breedable does later this year (kidding season 2010 is going to be a madhouse!)

The main reason we have them is for the Ag Tax discount on the property as this small of herd won't make profit vs expense but the tax credit is nice.

asprince and poka-bee: Ours are a high percentage Boer, most of the adult does are 3/4+ Boar/Nubian as I think the line of Spanish blood has died out in the last few years. This makes them decent hardy meat goats for our climate as Brian Bray said. And the brown ones, we have 3 this year and per history that's not happened...ever. But we have 2 good looking brown females this year which I like too. Our typical Boer is brown head, white body which I am ok with but like the unusual colors better.

We have a second herd (of two) Nubian and Nubian Toggenberg which we plan to milk and make cheese. Our Boers are just for meat, not milk.

And pets, hmm...yeah they are in general pets too as we have names for all of them and pet the ones who will let us.

I have pictures of some more babies I'm about to upload from earlier this week so i'll go do that! :)

Superhoney. Thanks for the clarification and elaboration, the Boers are meat animals, I get that gist. Love to hear about life on the farms, it is wonderful and you took me right there in my mind's eye, thanks. I had two Nubian does about 30 years ago, loved those gals. Beautiful day in this great life, great health, Cindi

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There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold. The Arctic trails have their secret tales that would make your blood run cold. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see, what the night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. Robert Service

I got to kidding season early this year. In a two-week span in January we had 7 kids from three does and sold two other pregnant does as well as my buck. I ended up selling all but one doe and her twin female kids. She is my daughter's favorite goat so I had to keep her.

I left in early Feb with the Army for 5 months so I had to sell them off, but my daughter's goat remains. Hopefully they are paying enough attention to the kids so they aren't skiddish.

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After 18 months of reading and preparation, my girls finally arrived on April 11th (2006)!

I got to kidding season early this year. In a two-week span in January we had 7 kids from three does and sold two other pregnant does as well as my buck. I ended up selling all but one doe and her twin female kids. She is my daughter's favorite goat so I had to keep her.

I left in early Feb with the Army for 5 months so I had to sell them off, but my daughter's goat remains. Hopefully they are paying enough attention to the kids so they aren't skiddish.

Are you now deployed?

Steve

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